Marcy DiniusAssistant Professor Department of English 044 Memorial Hall Newark, DE 19716
Marcy J. Dinius received her Ph.D. (2005) from Northwestern University. She specializes in American literature and culture to 1865, with particular interests in print, visual, and material cultures, representations of race, and narrative. A 2008-09 John W. Kluge Center Fellow at the Library of Congress and a 2005-06 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, she is completing The Camera and the Pen: American Literature and Culture in the Daguerreian Age, a comparative analysis of a broad range of print-cultural responses to the first form of photography. She is also in the early stages of work on a book on African-American radical writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Essays from her research and teaching have appeared in ESQ, Poe Studies, the Modern Language Association volume Approaches to Teaching Poe's Poetry and Prose, and the Routledge Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. Professor Dinius teaches courses on the literature and print, visual, and material cultures of the antebellum period; American literature and culture from the colonial period to the present; African-American literature; and literature and film.
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